Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Florence, SC ranks #2,193 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 1,447 patents from 362 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Florence, SC include GE, Basf Se, Degen Medical. That works out to 36.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–50 of 362 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Timothy John Havens GE 40
2 Longzhi Jiang GE 33
3 Charles F. Helms, Jr. Basf Se 31
#4 Craig Black Degen Medical 30
#5 Weijun Shen GE 29
#5 Bu-Xin Xu GE 29
#7 Derek Seeber GE 27
#8 Michael T. Drummond Sonoco Development 22
#9 Yuri Lvovsky GE 21
#9 David C. Griffin The Esab Group 21
#11 Ronald W. Bennett 20
#12 George Petros Yiannikouros Hoffmann-La Roche 17
#13 William Louis Einziger GE 16
#14 Jalal Hunain Zia GE 15
#14 Mark Derakhshan GE 15
#16 Daniel C. Woods GE 14
#16 David A. Nelson Ingersoll-Rand 14
#18 John C. Webb Queen'S University At Kingston 13
#18 Ariel A. Szogi USDA 13
#18 Matias B. Vanotti USDA 13
#18 Donald W. Carkhuff Esab Welding Products 13
#22 John Scaturro, Jr. GE 12
#22 Anthony Mantone GE 12
#22 Keith Rea Sonoco Development 12
#22 Charles Goldberg Hill-Rom 12
#22 Christopher G. King GE 12
#22 Glenda J. Cahill Sonoco Development 12
#28 Subir K. Dey Sonoco Development 11
#28 Edwin L. Legall GE 11
#28 Panos Kalaritis Abbott 11
#28 Jack Roach Avm 11
#28 Michael Paul Cruskie, Jr. Radius Pharmaceuticals 11
#28 Christopher Reed Martin The Esab Group 11
#28 Gregory W. Diehl The Esab Group 11
#28 Kurt Ziegenfelder Sonoco Development 11
#36 Anthony J. Cook Aluminum Ladder 10
#36 Shirley B. Webb Shell Oil Compny 10
#36 Steven F. Hardwick Innerlogic 10
#36 Timothy E. Wise Hyperformix 10
#36 David E. Dean GE 10
#41 Valerian Nemchinsky The Esab Group 9
#41 Donald W. Hayward Plantic Technologies 9
#41 Robert Thor Versluys Sonoco Development 9
#41 Gerald Merovitz Playtex Products 9
#41 William S. Stogner GE 9
#46 Clifford J. Ginfrida GE 8
#46 Thomas Franklin Oakley The Esab Group 8
#46 Thimma Rawalpally Cabot 8
#46 Pingsheng Zhang Hoffmann-La Roche 8
#46 Willie S. Edwards Degen Medical 8

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